Adjustable photograph mount



' Filed Jan. 18, 1949 Patented Sept. 18, 1951 Samuel Widder., New York,Y., assigner to J. Widder & Co., New York, N. Y., a'corporation of NewYork ApplicationJanuary 18, 1949, Serial No. 71,490

This invention relates to a novel easel or mounting for photographsadaptable to ready mounting of a photog-raph in more than one position.y

Various mounting arrangements for photographs have been proposed or usedin the pas?A but have not been satisfactory due to limitatio.. of theposition of the photograph or portrait in the mounting. The photographsor portraits, in

present day practice, are generally placed in pro tective transparentenvelopes, which are fittec into -a relatively :stiff Ypocket having a.frame" front and a sti" rear backing which is adapted for mounting in akdisplay easel, album or the like. This 'pocket may be cemented or gluedto `the easel or sheet of the album, or alternatively,

may have its corners inserted into triangular shaped pockets provided onthe easel or on a page of the album. In the latter case, the triangularpockets have hitherto been so located that it has been possible to mountthe photograph in the horizontal position or in the Vertical position,but not selectively in either position. This is due to the fact that thelongitudinal and lateral dimensions of the photograph and its pocket arelimited to the extreme overall distance between the pocket apices.Consequently, such pocket easels have been unsatisfactory, applied asindividual units or as sheets of an album, from the standpoint ofadaptability to mounting of photographs in different positions. Themounting of the present invention for use as individual easels or asleaves of an album, overcomes these diiiculties of the prior art byproviding a relatively stiff easel or the like which has slots with apre-set spacing arranged to receive tabs on the pocket, the tabs being-arranged on opposite sides or on all four sides of the pocket andhaving the same pre-set spacing as the slots. The lateral andlongitudinal dimensions of the pockets, or the photographs, are notcritical with respect to the spacing of the tabs. As a result, providedthe tabs on the pocket have the same spacing as the slots on the easel,the photograph may be mounted on the easel in either the horizontal orthe vertical position. In other words, the position of the pocket orphotograph on the easel is in no way limited by the overall lateral orlongitudinal dimensions of the photograph or pocket, the only criterionbeing that the tab spacing is equal to the slot spacing. f course,thetabs may be on the easel and the slots on the pocket or photograph ifdesired.

With the foregoing in mind, it is an object of the present invention toprovide a photograph 1 Claim. (Cl. l0-158) mounting which may support aphotograph 'in either the horizontal or the vertical positionirrespective of the relative longitudinal and lateral dimensions of thephotograph or its protective pocket.

Another object is to provide such a mounting having' slots or tabsspaced a pre-set distance and arranged to receive 'correspondinglyspaced tabs or slots on a photograph or its protecting pocket.

vThese and other objects, Aadvantages and `nevel features of theinvention will be apparent from the following vdescription and theaccompanying drawing. In the drawing: l

Fig. l is fa pla-n view of 'an album mounting sheet according to thepresent invention;

Fig. 2 is a. front plan view of a photograph protecting pocket accordingto the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a rear plan View of the pocket;

Fig. 4 shows the pocket of Fig. 2 as mounted vertically on the sheet ofFig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 showing the pocket mountedhorizontally.

Referring to Fig. l, an album mounting or display sheet IIJ isillustrated as having a binding strip II provided with apertures IZ toreceive binding posts, laces or other binding means of an album. StripII is connected by a ilexible section I3 to the mounting or easel I5,which may have protectors I4 on its outer corners.

In accordance with the invention, mounting or easel I5 has segmentalslots I6, I'I arranged in such a Iway that the continuation of the baselines forms a square, with two slots being located on each side of thesquare. Of course, more than two slots on each side may be provided, ifdesired, but two are usually sufficient, and the slots may have othersuitable shapes. Each pair of slots has a center to center spacing equalto that of each of the other pairs. For example, slots I6, I6 on theupper and lower edges have a center to center spacing A equal to thecenter to center spacing A of slots II, I'I on the rightand lefthandedges.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, a photograph mounting pocket 2D is shown ashaving a frame shaped front 2I suitably cemented or otherwise secured toa backing 22. Frame 2| cooperates with the backing 22 to form a pocketto receive and protect a photograph or portrait, and may have a sheet 23of transparent material secured thereto, or placed in the pocket, toprotect the face of the photograph. Backing 22 has a slot 26 throughwhich the photograph is inserted in pocket 20.

In accordance with the invention, backing 22 is rectangular and has apair of parallel edges 24, 24 spaced apart a distance substantiallyequal to or somewhat less than the distance between the base lines ofthe two pairs of slots I'I, or of the two pairs of slots I6. Each edge24 carries tabs 25, 25 equal in number to the number of slots adjacenton edge of mounting I5.. Tabs 25 have a center to center spacing A equalto the center to center spacing A of the slots of mounting I0.

With the described arrangement pocket 20 may be placed on mounting I5 ineither the horizontally oriented or vertically oriented position,despite the fact that pocket 20 is considerably longer than it is wide.In the vertical mounting shown in Fig. 4, tabs 25 are engaged in slotsI1, while in the horizontal mounting of Fig. 5, tabs 25 are engaged inslots I6.

This is in contrast to the usual arrangement in which the mounting hascorner pockets and the photograph pocket must have dimensions equalv tothe spacing of the apices of the corner pockets. With the presentinvention, the overall dimensions of pocket 20 are not so limited, theonly limitation being the center to center -spacing of tabs 25 relativeto that of slots I6 or Il. Consequently, the adaptability of themounting arrangement is greatly increased. Alternatively, mounting I5may have tabs and backing 22 may have correspondingly located slots.

While a specic embodiment of the invention has been shown and describedin detail to illustrate the application of the principles thereto, itshould be understood that the invention may be otherwise embodiedwithout departing from such principles.

What is claimed is:

A photograph mounting arrangement cornprising, in combination, amounting having pairs of slots each forming one side of a rectangle, thespacing between the slots of each pair being equal, and a photographsupport having pairs of projecting tabs on each of two parallel sides ofa rectangle, the tabs of each pair having a spacing equal to that of thespace between the slots of each pair and the spacing of the pairs oftabs being substantially equal to that of two parallel pairs of slots,whereby the tabs may be inserted in the slots of either of a pair ofadjacent sides of the slot rectangle so that the support may be securedto the mounting in either of two perpendicularly related positions.

SAMUEL WIDDER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,166,641 Perera July 18, 19392,177,150 Perera Oct. 24, 1939 2,268,705 Hill Oct. 14, 1941 FOREIGNPATENTS Number Country Date 19,239 Great Britain Aug. 27, 1907

